30 



NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[No, 7. 



quiet, he would fly down among his companions. At the first alarm 

 the flock would take to the bushes 7 running swiftly, or flying when hard 

 pressed. They roosted in the dense bunches of willows and cotton- 

 woods growing along the ditches. As a rule the birds walked under 

 the roosting place and flew up one or two at a time into the tree or 

 bush, though sometimes they flew into the tree from a distance. When 

 feeding they have a series of low clucking and cooing notes which are 

 kept up almost continually." 



Br. Merriam found Gambel's quail abundant below Mountain Spring, 

 in the southern part of the Charleston Mountains, Nevada, April 29-30, 

 and shot several at Upper Cottonwood Springs, at the east base of the 

 same mountains, April 30. He contributes the following notes concern- 

 ing its presence in eastern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, and south- 

 western Utah : In Nevada it was common at the Great Bend of the 

 Colorado, May 4, where several sprung traps set for small mammals ; 

 in the Valley of the Virgin and Lower Muddy it was not only abundant 

 but so unwary that it ran along in front of the horses in considerable 

 numbers, early in May; it was tolerably common in the southern part 

 of Pahranagat Valley, May 22-26, but shy and difficult of approach. 

 At the mouth of Beaverdam Creek, northwestern Arizona, and thence 

 up over the Beaverdam Mountains, Utah, it was exceedingly abundant 

 as it was also in the Santa Clara Valley, Utah, May 11-15, and a few 

 were found as far north as the Upper Santa Clara Crossing. The spe- 

 cies is said to reach Shoal Creek at the south end of the Escalante 

 Desert occasionally, but is rare there. 



Record of specimens collected of CalMp&pla gambeli. 



Col- 



lector's 

 No. 



72 

 73 



'74 

 75 



102 

 104 



28 



Sex. 



e 



cf 



? 



V 



rf 

 ? , 



cfad. 



tfad 



e 



Locality. 



Death Valley, Calif., 

 .do....' 



.do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



Resting Springs, Calif- 

 do 



Palvrump Valley, Nev . 

 Ash Meadows, Nev . . . 



Date. 



Jan. 24,1891 



....do 



....do 



....do 



June 19,1891 



..-■-do 



Feb. 8,1891 

 ....do 



Feb. 15,1891 

 Mar. 4, 1891 



Collector. 



A. K. Fisher . 



....do 



....do 



....do 



V. Bailey 



do 



A. K. Fisher . 



....do 



T. S. Palmer . . 

 F. Stephens .. 



Remarks. 



Furnace Creek. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Dendragapus obscurus fuliginosus. Sooty Grouse. 



The Sooty Grouse was nowhere common, and the only ones seen out- 

 side of the Sierra Nevada were one by Mr. Nelson in the upper part 

 of the White Mountains, in July, and a pair by Mr. Stephens at the 

 Queen mill, Nevada, in the same mountains, July 11-16. 



On the eastern slope of the Sierra, one was seen by Mr. Stephens 

 at Menache Meadows, the latter part of May; another on Independ- 

 ence Creek about the same time; one adult and two broods, at Bishop 

 Creek, August 4-10 j and it was found sparingly at the head of 



